Barbara Stewen, Vita

vita.

born in Lithuania
grown up in Westphalia/Germany
Lower Cambridge Examination/ London
Nurse inland and abroad
Crime official in the Ruhr area
Painting technology 1983-1986 with the surrealist Arnold Krause (*1948 - 1987+) in Bergisch Gladbach

Single exhibitions:

July - August 2020 District Directorate Cologne "Traces of color and photo paintings"
November 2013 - Januar 2014 Jubilate Forum Lindlar: "show true colours"
2011 “ concrete & abstract”, Federal Road Research Institute (BASt), Bergisch Gladbach
2010“ Contrasts”, VR Bank, Rösrath
2009, 2008, 2006 FENEX Exhibitions in Hauptstraße 266 Bergisch Gladbach and Schloßstraße Bensberg
2008 Old railway station Marienheide „iron in the fire“
2008 Kulturpunkt Wipperfürth „Faces, people in the park“
2007 in the Council Chamber Lindlar „colours, canvas, wood and shards“
2006 VR Bank Wipperfürth
Parish church Hohkeppel with the Skulpture „PAX for my brother“
2006 Gallery "Tanke", Halver
1998 Exhibition on the opening of the new Town Hall Lindlar

Group exhibitions:

October - November 2023: "...light!", exhibition by the AdK Bergisch Gladbach in the VHA Bergisch Gladbach
June-July 2023: "Dialogue East - West", exhibition by the AdK Bergisch Gladbach in the Bergisch Gladbach district hall
April 2023: "Flotsam", exhibition by GEDOK Düsseldorf in the Düsseldorf casemates
September 2022: “time + happen”, exhibition by the AdK Bergisch Gladbach in the VHS Bergisch Gladbach
June 2022: „wechsel - change - changement“, Exhibition of the BBK Bonn, Rhein-Sieg in the old Sinzig printing works
March 2022: "twenty twenty ...", AdK Bergisch Gladbach in the "basement 16" gallery in Bensberg
November 2021: "Faces of us" - We are Humanity. Our faces are us, Rösrath
September 2021: "Stilllllife", ADK Bergisch Gladbach
March 2020: "It's me", ADK Bergisch Gladbach
October 2019: 39th EXHIBITION OF RÖSRATHER ARTISTS
September 2019: "poziuris", ADK, Bergisch Gladbach and 2021 Marijampole, Lithuania
September 2019: EAT Eifel Studio Days, Heimbach
April 2019: "It's all in vain", AdK Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach and Nümbrecht
January 2019: KUNST PUMP WERK , Kunstverein for the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis e.V., Siegburg
September 2018: BergischKunst, "Ins Blaue" Art Gallery, Remscheid
September 2018: KunstForumEifel, Gemünd
May 2018: Cape-Hoorn ART "The Tenth", Harbor Studios Bremen
November 2017 "37th exhibition Rösrather artist", Eulenbroich Castle, Rösrath
October 2017 "Art Point . High Point . Final Point", BBK exhibition in the historic factory building of Schoeller AG Eitorf
Juni - Oct. 2017 "ArtPoint", Exhibition of the work group of the artists Bergisch Gladbach in the technology park Bensberg
October 2017 "NOW", Exhibition of the work group of the artists Bergisch Gladbach in the gallery A24, Technologiepark Bensberg
March 2017 "Schattenseiten", exhibition with Sigrid Fischer in the gallery A24, Technologiepark Bensberg
November 2016 "Kunst tut gut", exhibition and charity auction at the Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg
April-May 2016 Oberschlesisches Landesmuseum Ratingen: German-Polish exhibition " ANNABERG / Gora Sw Anny . " Awarded the Richeza Price 2016 NRW for German-Polish Cooperation
April-June 2016: "Realities" Gruppe Neun-exhibition in the town hall of Overath
November 2015: Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg: charity auction "Kunst tut gut"
September 2015, "Presence", 30 years AdK in VHS Berg. Gladbach
September 2015 "Cross-border commuters", BBKBonn/Sieg; Annual exhibition in the Kunstwerft Rheinbrohl
April-June 2015: " Humanity " , Pegasus exhibition Goethe Hall Hamburg
April-May 2015: " Bergisch makes " Art Exhibition of the Gruppe Neun eV in Rheinberg Gallery Bergisch Gladbach
March-May 2015: " light and dark ", 3rd church-exhibition of AdK in St. Engelbert , Bergisch Gladbach
November 2014: Art Museum Villa Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach: charity auction "Kunst tut gut"
Juni 2014: Kap-Hoorn ART "Die Sechste" zArtbitter, Hafen-Ateliers Bremen
April - Mai 2014: Künstlerforum Bonn: BBK-jubilee-exhibition"20 - 40 - 60"
März 2014 Kulturhaus Zanders Bergisch Gladbach: AdK-Exhibition "Transitions"
October 2013: "AdK-Werkschau", House of artist's studios-Gallery A24 im Technologiepark Bergisch Gladbach
September 2013 Art HouseTroisdorf "everything's round", Exhibition BBK Rhein-Sieg
August 2013 Exhibition Galeria sztuki Góra Sw. Anny PLENER MALARSKI, international Meeting of artista from Germany and Poland in St. Annaberg Poland, BBK Rhein-Sieg
August 2013 CBT Bergisch Gladbach"InsiteOutsite", Exhibition AdK Bergisch Gladbach
November 2012 Altes Pfandhaus Köln "Ablaze, Art lights up", anniversary exhibition of GEDOK Cologne
August - Oktober 2012 Kunstraum Kieser Bergisch Gladbach: "Would you like a little more""
Nov. 2011: "BBK Rhein-Sieg e.V. presents its new members", Kulturzentrum Hardtberg Bonn
September 2011: "TAKE FIVE", House of artist's studios-Gallery A24 im Technologiepark Bergisch Gladbach
2013/2011/2010/2009/2008: Benefit performance auction „art is good“, Städt. Galerie Villa Zanders, Kulturhau Zanders; Bergisch Gladbach
August 2010: Anniversary-Exhibition of the AdK Bergisch Gladbach, Gallery Villa Zanders
May 2010 "Encounters", 9 GEDOK artists in the Chamber of Crafts Cologne
March 2010 "Between mountain and deep, deep valley”, Culture House Zanders, Bergisch Gladbach
August / November 2009: Participation in the project "Homage à Nam June Paik" in Bergisch Gladbach
2008: AWO youth workshop project "Kunststückch'chen", an initiative of the AdK
May 2006: „PAX for my brother“, funereal academy of Pütz-Roth Bergisch Gladbach
2005 in the Advice Hall Lindlar
2003 in Kastela (Croatia), a twin town of Lindlar
1986 in Brionne (France), a twin town of Lindlar
1986 - 1988 subject exhibitions with the AdK – working group of the artists Bergisch Gladbach –
in several Banks and the community center “Bergischer Löwe” in Bergisch Gladbach

Literature:

2023: "Foreign Sister", crime novel, published by Ruhrkrimi Verlag
2021: "Der Puppenräuber", crime novel, published by Ruhrkrimi Verlag
2018: "Fuchsteufelsmord", Ruhr area thriller, published by Scylla Verlag
2013: "Ein Engel, so gut wie auch schön, eine Liebe im Kriegsjahr 1793", biographical novel,published by E. Humbert-Verlag Neu-Bamberg
2010: Novella "Butterfly Wings" a postwar childhood in Westphalia
2007: cultural-historical study entitled "The Myth of garnet, fascination in history, literature and medicine"

Readings:

April 2024: Crime reading in Wipperfürth - Thier
April 2024: Reading during the 2nd Mülheim Book Fair in Saarn Monastery
December 2023: Reading, interpretation and addition with own words from Heinrich Heine's "Winter's Tale" with the writers' association VS Cologne / Bonn / Leverkusen in the DGB House in Cologne
November 2023: Reading from the novel “The False Sister” in the Church of St. Margaretha in Ennigerloh-Ostenfelde
October 2023: Short story "The Wrong Railway", reading evening of the NRW Society for Literature under the title "Fear eats up the soul" in the Agneskirche Cologne
March 2023: Reading from my crime novel: 'Der Puppenräuber' as part of the 1st book fair in Mülheim/Ruhr in the Saarn monastery
December 2022: Critical texts for Christmas and the turn of the year, reading by the Society for Literature NRW in the Agneskirche in Cologne
September 2022: "The Brown Little Skirt", reading as part of the NRW Literature Festival in the Bochum City Archive
October 2021: "Departure for Prussia in stormy times", reading as part of the 7th Cologne Literature Days, Old Fire Station Cologne
August 2021: "The brown pleated skirt", Thea-Theater Bergisch Gladbach at the 2021 literary competition of the authors' group Wort & Kunst
October 2020: "Glass Caravans", reading as part of the 6th Cologne Literature Days in the Kulturkirche Köln-Buchholz
February 2020: "Marie-Antoinette - Glamour and Fall of a Queen", lecture at the International Lyceum Club, Cologne
October 2019: Reading in the bookstore Kottmann, Gelsenkirchen from "Fuchsteufelsmord"
March 2019: "Goethe's love for carbuncle and Miss Ulrike von Levetzow", lecture and reading at the International Lyceum Club, Cologne
December 2018: Crime Christmas in the creative center of the Scylla publishing house, reading from "Fuchsteufelsmord"
July 2018: 2nd literature evening, Art Factory, Cologne
October 2016: Katharina-Henoth School in Cologne-Kalk, reading before more than 70 young people in the course of the 2nd Cologne Literature Festival
August 2016: open art studio Oberstaat (Manuele Klein - Detlev Weigand)
December 2015 : Christmas reading CBT -Wohnhaus Villa Risch, Bergisch Gladbach
June 2015: Goethe Performance with reading in the Villa Risch, Bergisch Gladbach
Mai 2015: Performance on "Goethe's bittersweet love to Miss Ulrike von Levezow", Rhein-Berg-Galerie Bergisch Gladbach
Mai 2015 Reading from "Ein Engel, so gut wie auch schön" at the Book Fair Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz
January 2015 Goethe Society Bergisch Gladbach: Lecture: '' The Luise image in the painting of the late 18th and 19th centuries - first coined from classicism to transfigured representation '', then reading from the book '' Ein Engel, so gut wie auch schön ''
"Luise of Prussia, a bride travel", Galerie & Erzähl-Kontor "Alter Fuhrmannshof" in Marienheide-Müllenbach on 12/21/2014
Ein Engel, so gut wie auch schön:
- November 2013: CBT-Residential, Bergisch Gladbach
- September 2013: Bookshop Ruthmann, Bodenheim
February 2011: Lecture at the Goethe Society Bergisch Gladbach "Goethe's love for carbuncles and Ulrike von Levetzow"
within the framework of "open studio"

Memberships:

GEDOK Cologne
BBK Bonn, Rhein-Sieg
AdK, working group of the artists Bergisch Gladbach
Group Nine e.V. - Association for Art and Culture in the "Bergisches Land"
Verband deutscher Schriftsteller Landesverband NRW
VG Bild, VG Wort

Awards:

2021 3rd prize in the 2021 literary competition of the authors' group Wort & Kunst with the story "The brown pleated skirt"
2017 2nd Prize Dr. Rembold Foundation at the 37th Rösrather artist exhibition for the picture "Gap"
1979 winner prize for the 10th anniversary of the „Forum“ Bergisch Gladbach
1989 award-winning poster on "Third World"